Canceling Church Services on Christmas?
Some Protestant pastors are canceling their Sunday church services this week because it’s Christmas Day and they fear no one will show up.
Dionne We Now Our Gay Apparel
A prominent liberal asks: Why do conservative Christians seem to treat the sin of homosexuality different than the sins of adultery or divorce?
The Sad Case of Frank Pavone
While Pavone’s laicization understandably raises many emotions among pro-life Catholics, it’s not as simple as “ Vatican bad, canceled priest good.”
Autistic Kids Targeted by Transgender Activists
Those with autism often seek affirmation, identity, and attention, and changing one’s entire “identity” is now a popular way to bring it on.
The Universal Call to Hobbitness
The temptation to be distracted from our own precious plots of land is terrible, as every man, looking into his pocket palantír, sees the forces of evil arrayed to destroy the world he loves.
Must Christmas Be Magical?
In making Christmas the most magical time of the year, it feels like our sad, post-Christian culture is clinging, like a lost child with a tattered teddy bear, to some sort of nostalgic longing for the supernatural.
The Violent Bear It Away in a Nutshell
Flannery O’Conner’s modus operandi as a writer was the employment of violence and the grotesque to shock her readers out of their somnambulant indifference to truth.
Musk vs. Fauci
Maybe you had the seeming transhumanist Big Tech Czar going after Emperor Fauci on your 2022 bingo card, but I sure didn’t.
Wisdom Requires Purity of Heart
The pure of heart are the blessed ones, Christ tells us, because having rid themselves of every distraction, their eyes remain fixed upon God alone.
Big Medicine’s Fight Against Nature
Modern conventional medicine practitioners have become purveyors of sort of a “noble savage” concept of health, hence their nearly total lack of interest in diet, exercise, balanced sun exposure, fresh air, and health maintenance in general.
Taylor Swift and the Millennial Dilemma
The pop star’s latest album is meant to be reflective, but when reflection is limited to purely the pursuit of self-knowledge, one forges a downward spiral into the human psyche that leads to an anxious loop of overanalyzing.
Catholics Must Make Alliances with the Elites
Twitter can force even the most powerful people on earth to listen. The Democrats learned this lesson all too well, which is why they were so invested in quashing news stories that might harm Joe Biden’s campaign in 2020.
Seeking the Wrong Savior This Advent
This Advent, it’s clear that people surely yearn for a Savior, and they are looking for political figures to play the role. But whoever is chosen will under-deliver on his over-promises.
Joseph Ratzinger and the New Liturgical Movement
The struggle to define and to understand active participation is a fruit of two different conceptions of the liturgy. Joseph Ratzinger constantly affirmed the view that the liturgy is the the work of God and not a product of man.
The Benefits of a Commercialized Christmas
I despise the commercialization of Christmas as much as the next Catholic, but we are foolish not to leverage the many (mixed) blessings afforded to us by technology and capitalism.
Did Pope John Paul II Cover Up Abuse?
Recent accusations against Pope John Paul II revisit the difficult question of his actions in combatting the clerical sex abuse crisis.
Can Ye Love Hitler?
Kanye West’s recent comments about Adolf Hitler is worth some attention from wary Catholics.
The Banshees of Inisherin: Morals, Niceness, and the Truth of the Times
A new film poses some interesting religious questions even if, in the end, its nexus to religion is faux.
The Weaponization of Loneliness
No one wants to be alone. It is, at heart, a terrifying prospect. And so, this is the great fear played upon by those trying to impose their ideology.
A Catholic Defense of Evolutionary Science
God usually works slowly and predictably within the laws He Himself made. When we study the details that we know about the living world, we see that they are truly astounding and enthralling.